So you’ve started your brand new blog huh?
The excitement may not last long. After a few weeks or months, perhaps you’ve begun to experience burnout. Perhaps you like the feeling to be able to post your opinion on the Web, but writing becomes a chore rather than something fun to do on a regular basis.
Readership [...]

Jakob Nielsen has an article about participation inequality and tips on how to encourage more users to contribute. In most online communities, 90% of users are simply lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
When it comes to weblogs, the number is even [...]

Markus Merz gives another real example on how blogging — and other social networking activities — could be of great benefits if you have something great to say or show.
Basically he wrote an article about the Joby’s mini-tripod Gorillapod. He also recently created a Flickr group called Gorillapod Love.
When he sent an email as part [...]

BlogBurst, a syndication service that places blogs on top-tier online publications (mainstream media), officially launched early this month. With the new service, bloggers get more exposure and visibility. Publishers gain access to the tools, which help them discover and filter content.
BlogBurst requires that a blog feed doesn’t have any advertising, sponsorship and other commercial information [...]

PRWeb has officially announced in the support of trackbacks in every press release they publish. Traditional use of press release is to reach media, which in turn hopefully publishes the release in their media. Online the press release not only reach media, but also directly to consumer or end-users.
Why this feature is important to bloggers [...]